High Availability
Slay the downtime dragon and be an HA hero
Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 CAS Array with HAProxy (Quick Guide)
This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software...
High Availability
Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick
Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..
Application Management
Apache and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
There’s been a lot of debate here in the office about how best to capture both your Loadbalancer’s IP and the Source IP of the user in your access_log in Apache 2.4. This is the tried and tested method we've come up with...
GSLB
Why does Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) suck?
OK, Before the flames start let me state the usual caveat, "GSLBs don't ALWAYS suck. Just most of the time"...
High Availability
Loadbalancer.org guarantee 99.999% (5 nines) up-time to all of our customers.
Some vendors make a fair bit of hype about their products enabling 99.999% availability out of the box...